"I wrote a political poem about the war on Israel and the failure of craven minds to understand the threat of Islam. As you will see, I take the role of a dead female spotter on the Gaza fence, and I let her speak." M. Brooks
An Israeli Spotter Speaks Out, Posthumously By Madeline Brooks 12/10/23
I did! I tried to warn them. For a year and a half, I tried. So did all of us girls at the Gaza fence watching the terrorists train to kill us.
I told my sergeant, a women like me. She reported up the ranks and was smacked down. Hysterical, stupid female, she was told. Next time you will be count martialed for bothering me.
Then Gaza smacked us full force. Most of the girls on the fence – my friends – were shot. Hamas needed them silent. But they took me and two of the soldiers I worked with captive for a moment. They made us watch each other being raped, then they tied us together, poured gasoline on us, and we burned up together with our command post.
I will not tell you about the pain I felt. It was unbearable, of course. But if I tell you more you will stop reading now and I must not lose you for the next part.
Now that I am free of my body, my mind can travel many places. I can go to the minds of those who resolutely denied danger coming to see why they did it.
First of all, the generals are still alive, unraped. The generals believed the complexity and internal harmony of their thinking was a sufficient map of reality.
The map replaced the road. Mentally adjacent to them were the woke peaceniks, “Sha! Don’t disturb the dream! If we want peace badly enough surely the terrorists will too. Except we must stop offending them by calling them terrorists.” These are the moral aristocrats, superior to people like me.
Less pretentious are the policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic. They spend all their time arguing over giving and taking this and that parcel of land, as if it will bring peace.
I searched on and discovered brilliant minds usually ignored. These are the Muslim defectors who are spilling the beans about what makes Islam tick. Ayaan Irsi Ali, genitally mutilated in Somalia. Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of a Hamas founder, now hunted by his family. Nonie Darwish, daughter of an Egyptian general and founder of Arabs for Israel, Ibn Warraq, “Why I Am Not a Muslim,” a preeminent Pakistani scholar, and the very accomplished Maronite Middle East expert and journalist, Robert Spencer. There are so many other brave souls, risking their very lives to speak the truth about Islam. They expose the Koran as a war manual and detail its 1600 years of bloody, world wide Muslim expansion. Sadly, the dissidents are pushed aside as “extremists” by supposed intellectuals who are unwilling to even notice their experience and knowledge. Why are these brave souls ignored when they are patiently willing to risk their lives, martyrs not for the cause of jihad but to promote truth and peace? They whisper that what they have to say is so scary that cowardice makes many back off.
I am like them. I was not listened to either, and now I’m dead. As of this writing, these Muslim defectors have not been assassinated – yet. They continue to risk their lives to save yours.
Won’t you please check them out, while there is time?
On August 20, 2023, Curtis Sliwa was arrested, again, along with Scott Lobaido and others. This time during a protest in Staten Island, against housing of migrants in Midland Beach senior housing.
Curtis Sliwa and other anti-illegal migrant activists blocked the street outside of a Senior Residence in Staten Island tentatively planned to be turned into a migrant center. They chanted - re evicting the senior residents with : “Close the border!”
"The leftists in our city government hate America"
However, the NYPD declared the protesters blocking the road to be an unlawful assembly and moved in to make arrests after their warnings were ignored.
The Staten Island protestors supported Rule-of-Law against the egregious abuses perpetrated by hard-core leftists.
Open borders: NOT HERE! NO WAY!
However, is this two steps forward, and one step back. Mayor Adam's' head is now on the chopping-block of financial fraud.
The FBI investigation into Mayor Eric Adams is focused on campaign money, favors and possible foreign influence, according to officials briefed on the investigation. Adams has a long and proud relationship with the Turkish-American community of New York City, and he has made a half a dozen trips to Turkey.Nov 14, 2023
Is he the perpetrator or simply ineffectual. Whatever, affective change from City Hall seems illusive.
Flickr Slideshow Part 1.
Flickr Slideshow Part 2. Staten Island is so NEW YORK. They put on notice, Albany and City Hall: Do NOT think you can march in and do as you like without a FIGHT.
SEVEN VIDEOS. thoughtful speakers who made ir clear that passivity is not the answer.#1 But first, a playful arrival of the President's "Limo"
#2 The speakers began with local artist, Scott LoBaido: never forget Staten Island is an Island Of Immigrants
#3 Speakers continue with John Matland
#4 ... I don't have his name ... a community activist who shared his unique perspective to our government gone mad.
#5 The main speaker, organizer, Curtis Sliwa spoke before the arrests.
#6- Midland Beach protesters blocked the avenue in Part 1 of the arrests. First they blocked the street .
#7 Midland Beach protesters, now in Part 2: they are arrested for civil disobedience.
The final question, as we proceed towards 2024 ... re the abuses, the media, the war against loyal American .... it does not abate. Can we hope to stop this conspiracy?
UPDATE:
Is the New York nursing home turned into a migrant shelter?
The Department of Social Services (DSS) spokesman told the Staten Island Advance in September the former senior living facility would be turned into a migrant shelter for 113 families with private rooms and meal services. [Nov 30, 2023]
The Island Shores Residences in Staten Island are now known as the Midland Beach Migrant Center.
A 94-year-old US Army veteran is blasting his Staten Island assisted living home for kicking him out then cutting a deal to welcome migrants — saying it’s “not fair” he was sent packing.
Frank Tammaro was given less than two months’ notice he and 53 other seniors would have to move out of Island Shores Residences in March, and had to make other living arrangements.
GOP leaders from the borough have slammed the city and the nonprofit that owns the facility for what they called a “shady deal” to house migrants.
The decision led outraged Staten Islanders to protest in front of the shelter, with some physically blocking the arrival of an MTA bus carrying asylum seekers.
The group of protesters halted traffic after intercepting the bus on Sept. 19. A total of 10 people were taken into custody, with nine being issued summonses [AGAIN] for disorderlyconduct.
Sadly, the government marches on. Their agenda:
“They’re worried about the migrants more than they’re worried about the US citizens,” .... Homes for the Homeless declined to comment.
America FIRST was shoved out the door. Protests.... are they a waste of energy?
[Where indicated videos and pictures property of Pamela Hall- VSB]
"My article shows new evidence of Gazan savagery: even very young children and women participated in the Israeli pogrom. The assumed innocence of most Gazans must be questioned."[Madeline Brooks]
Westerners must understand the undiluted savagery of the Gazastinians
It is gut-wrenching to have to revisit the events of October 7 in southern Israel. But new evidence emerges that should shake our foundational thinking about Gazan civilians’ presumed innocence.
The Free Beacon has collected survivor reports. One of the survivors filmed the attacks:
Eyal Barad and his family hid in the safe room of their house from about 6:30 a.m. until the Israeli military evacuated them 12 or so hours later. But Barad, an engineer, had a rare view of the outside world thanks to a speed camera he had recently set up to bust his neighbors for driving on the sidewalk.
On the camera’s livestream, Barad watched three types of Gazans pass by his house: uniformed Hamas commandos carrying automatic weapons, RPGs, and grenades; casually dressed gunmen; and ordinary-looking men, women, and children. Barad said the ordinary Gazans vastly outnumbered the armed terrorists. He estimated that he saw at least a dozen children, who were between the ages of 10 and 15, and 30 women from Gaza. {snip]
“I can say with 100 percent certainty that [the women and kids] were not just innocent bystanders or looters. They were part of the massacre. They were part of the horrors that we endured that day.”
A mother describes hiding in her safe room with her children while a Gaza woman spent hours eating her food, serving meals to the Gazan men, and stealing the Israeli woman’s personal items, including her underwear.
Another survivor says he saw children between six and ten wearing Hamas military outfits, riding with a group of Hamas commandos. (my emphasis). Some of the boys were given rifles and told to kill the Israelis, which they did. The combatants’ young age would be surprising if one were not aware of how early military training begins in Gaza. In this video, we watch kindergartners execute a complex takeover of an Israeli outpost by killing a soldier. It is a graduation ceremony, and we see the whole family in proud attendance:
Tender-hearted people plead that these women and children are innocent. They are merely ‘brainwashed” and can be re-educated. Maybe. Perhaps some can.
But that argument makes the mistake of projecting one’s own values onto others, whose values may be substantially, and unchangeably, different. In this case, the decency and respect for human life that characterizes non-Muslims get projected onto a military/religious organization that values success at jihad more than anything else—more than one’s own life and certainly more than regard for an enemy’s life.
That sadistic contempt for Israeli life is displayed very ominously in a movie showing the October 7 atrocities that was watched by a vast audience of Gazan men in, of all places, the al Shifa hospital. The Gazans cheered wildly. So much for the notion that hospitals are only about saving lives:
The uproarious delight of the entertained jihadis should be chilling. Consequently, Israel and her supporters must think realistically about what to do with the Gazans—and their hideous ideology—once they win the war. [american thinker]
Madeline Brooks, M.A., is the former head of the New York chapter of ActforAmerica and is a conservative and counter-jihad writer. Her articles have been published in AmericanThinker.com, CanadaFreePress.com, FamilySecurityMatters.org, and elsewhere. Her book, What You Need To Know About Islamic Jihad: Information The Main Stream Media Is Not Giving You, is available on Scribd. She can be reached at ResistJihad@aol.com.
The pro -'palestinian' press-hype hung their "Cease Fire Now" on this location since Dr. Martin Luther King spoke here 50 years ago opposing the Viet Nam war.
The infamous Linda Sarsour. (who once claimed Israel Is ‘Built on the Idea That Jews Are Supreme to Everyone Else’) was one of the main speakers at the March For Gaza. Listen with a critical ear as she has a air of confidence spouting propaganda that eschews the facts. (Behind her is BLM's Tamika Mallory who has refused to say Israel has the right to exist)
VIDEO: .
.I listened to three speakers. Women. And they did not fail to disappoint. The Leftists and 'palis' have shamefully denied the crimes of Hamas, particularly their crimes against women and children.
Hypocrites who preach LOVE , like the Author of Fierce Love: "A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World", The Rev. Dr. Jacqui (Jacqueline) Lewis - Senior MinisterMiddle Church. .... VIDEO:
.Author of Fierce Love: "A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World"
They ignore history. Ancient history. Stuck on stupid, they rant about 75 years as though there had been no anti-Jewish attacks from the Muslim world prior to 1948.
NEXT, Marwa Janini , Sarsour's successor as Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) ... a left-of-center org which focuses on immigration policy, criminal justice policy and other issues impacting the Arab American community in New York City. VIDEO:
Another woman who spoke, Carmen Perez, internationally-known civil and human rights leader and Chicana feminist; a co-founder of the Women’s March and the current executive director of The Gathering For Justice a far-left “social justice” advocacy organization established by far-left activist and singer Harry Belafonte.
Like her fellow Women’s March leaders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, Perez has expressed support for Nation of Islam leader and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and her support of convicted Brinks robbery associate Baba Sekou Odinga.
Disappointed, I failed to get an audio I could use.The police made our jobs as reporters difficult this day, forcing the press to film from a distance: no press area. Forcing the press to jockey for positions from across East 45th street.
Pali Flickr slide show
Pro Israel FLICKR SLIDESHOW
Trying to cover the Pro-Israel supporters was a challenge, since press was kept on the sidewalk . Not a great angle.
VIDEO- Pro ISRAEL rally goers vs the "pali" lies protest
Closing with this video from a young Iranian woman who speaks with great wisdom ** Saying “one man’s terr0rist is another man’s freedom fighter” is like saying “one woman’s rap1st is another woman’s passionate lover”
Please listen from the beginning of this powerful 6 minute video"
Should Israel Spare the Gazan “Innocents”? By Madeline Brooks*
As the world knows, or very tellingly, should know, the Israeli Defense Force goes to great lengths to spare the lives of Gazans presumed innocent. In the moral smog of war, this important fact is usually overlooked by the international crowd of Israel critics.
The IDF gave abundant warning to Gazans with leaflets and even phone calls to go to the south of Gaza, out of the immediate war zone. Some Gazans did head south, waving white flags and getting shot at by their own Hamas government. Others stayed, even though they were offered a substantial reward and a safe place to live if they cooperated in getting the hostages out.
Just who is Israel sparing? The sixteen year old boy who at this moment does not have a rifle in his hand, although his school books teach him to hate Jews? Hordes of “civilian” young men, out of uniform, who nevertheless swarmed into southern Israel on October 7 after the uniformed jihadis to rape, behead and burn Jewish families? How about the mother who sings her child to sleep with lullabies about killing Israelis, or the young girl engaged to a jihadi, egging him on?
Most horribly, a huge crowd of military age Gazan men were shown a movie of the massacres of Jews on October 7. This was the same video put together by the IDF from the cameras of the terrorists. Somehow the video got into the Gazans’ hands and was shown at al Shifa hospital. When Israeli journalists watched the video, many were so upset they vomited or sobbed uncontrollably. What did the Gazans do? They cheered. They roared their approval. Allahu Akbar.
Please watch the reaction of the Gazanspresumed innocent starting at the 18:05 minute mark and repeated at the 32:36 minute mark.
.These are among the creatures that the IDF may have been trying to spare, even at the cost of their own lives since the whole area could have been bombed so thoroughly from above that it would be turned into a parking lot, with no escape from the tunnels. Such was the sentiment among some at the start of the war. Instead, the IDF is engaged in a prolonged building to building fight, which puts its own soldiers at great risk, all to spare presumed innocents.
Does it make sense to spare one’s enemies whose blood lust gets fed by reliving what they did to Israelis a month ago - what they can and will do again when they see more weakness? Since Israel’s inception, every time its guard went down and it trusted its sworn enemies, it paid a terrible price in blood.
Sadly, and adding to the complexity of it all, there are some Gazans who reject Hamas and are willing to describe its horrors to an Israeli, as seen in this video. These Gazans had to flee to Europe to be able to speak freely about Hamas without getting their legs broken or getting killed. One of them speaks of friends still in Gaza who hate Hamas as much as he does.
Yet if Israel goes down, diaspora Jews will have very hard lives. More than that, the rest of the world will be faced with a “barbarism that has no place in the modern world” as Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president, said in an open letter to university administrators.
Across the planet, protests are going on to stop the bombing and spare the “innocent” civilians. That would mean protecting the terrorists-in-waiting that we see in the hospital’s movie audience. Protests by the keffiyeh kiddos inspire the jihad and bring in fresh recruits, as well as putting pressure on weak government officials to stop Israel from fully defending herself.
Israel could have taken the Joshua option, eliminating all threats as in the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy and Joshua. But it has chosen a softer approach, one that may bring more war upon its head in the future, and still no world acceptance. As we see, anti Israel and anti Jewish protests began even before Israel went into Gaza, and grow stronger everyday. Hate has a life of its own. Holding back on war efforts has no apparent effect on rage against Jews.
Any other country would be widely praised for its self-sacrifice. But not Israel. Israel gets accused of committing genocide, a projection of what Hamas is clearly doing.
Israel has a hard choice to make: Dodge worldwide criticism or fight like Joshua and the Israelites in the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy, where the Almighty ordered the elimination of all who did not answer the call to surrender. Survival may only come by fighting Biblically. Granted, that sounds morally difficult in today’s climate, though it was practiced by the United States in Dresden, Germany and two Japanese cities during WWII.
Certainly, watching the video of Gazan men, who may be off duty jihadists, cheering as they watch their fellows chop, rape and burn other human beings…that should open new doors to careful thinking about Gazan innocents.
*Madeline Brooks, M.A., is the former head of the New York chapter of ActforAmerica and is a conservative and counter-jihad writer. Her articles have been published in AmericanThinker.com, CanadaFreePress.com, FamilySecurityMatters.org, and elsewhere. Her book, What You Need To Know About Islamic Jihad: Information The Main Stream Media Is Not Giving You, is available on Scribd. She can be reached at ResistJihad@aol.com.
WARNING: this video is of the October 7 Massacre. Don’t look away.
Back to 42nd st and those who SUPPORT Israel
Video- Part 1 . A small but valiant group of patriots supporting Israel was enough to upset the 'palis'
Words straight from a senior Hamas official:
“We will repeat the actions of October 7 again and again until Israel is destroyed.”Hamas has one goal:To wipe Israel and its people off the face of the earth. "
In the background of the next video, at third Avenue,
I noticed later there was a vandalized hostage /kidnapped poster.
Video Part 3 - more palis
LEFT VOICE banner (an example of who supports the pali genocide of the Jews ) "Left Voice is a revolutionary socialist news site and magazine dedicated to fostering a sustained and strategic struggle against every form of capitalist exploitation and oppression."
"As part of an international network of news sites ... Left Voice is able to provide a truly internationalist perspective on revolutionary politics, ... to examine the movements of the U.S. working class within the larger framework of global revolution." [https://www.leftvoice.org/]
Flickr Slideshow, palis and leftists
.Photo: (Empty Chairs, Broken Hearts)
"These are people who believed in peace and coexistence. But Hamas doesn't want coexistence, as their atrocities demonstrate."
Flickr Slide show, Israel : Even a small group of Israel supporters was still enough to upset the 'pali's' LIES as they continue to ignore the murder and kidnapping of women and children in Israel.
"Sad reminder that there are people across the West who openly celebrated this massacre as an act of “decolonization”. TwitterX
"Israel suggested the Arab's a State, 5 times, but they declined it because they want all the land, between the river and the sea." TwitterX
. And as the JEW HATRED grows, even the police are fearful of standing up for Israel:
... filmed by @Copwatch_CPU (a cop hating twitter site) "... a man waving an Israel flag as a pro-Palestine march approached in NYC. Cops moved him away and surrounded him and told him to put the flag away because he was instigating."
SAD. WRONG. Censorship that aides the genocidal palis by silencing the truth.
We must NOT be SILENT.
God Bless America Am Yisrael Chai.
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
"I write about what could stop the bombing if they took responsibility for themselves, and I look at them through a family systems lens. They are like the very troubled child living off Daddy who wants to burn the house down. Let us not buy into their self pitying smokescreen." MB
Madeline is a conservative and counter-jihad writer. She can be reached at resistjihad@aol.com
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.The latest moral confusion about the Hamas/Gaza problem is whether or not to continue bombing. The plea is that civilians are innocent and must be spared. A mainstream TV broadcast showed a wide-eyed Gaza man saying, “I was as surprised as the Israelis by the October 7 attack. So why punish me with bombing?”
This is a message for you, Mr. Average Gazan, and any other Gazan like you. Here’s why Gaza is still being bombed.
First of all, it’s hard to know if you are telling the truth. The terrorists planning the attack acted for two years as if they were peaceful, all the while stockpiling weapons. Taqiyyah, or lying to your enemies, is endorsed in the Koran (3:28) and in other Muslim writings. An apparent peacemaker, Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, who was responsible for the Gilad prisoner exchange, turned out to be totally treacherous. While fooling the leftist chump he bargained with, Hamad talked about negotiating peace. Now Hamad shows his true colors, vowing to repeat the October 7 massacre over and over until Israel is eliminated, as Caroline Glick points out.
Also, Mr. Ordinary Gazan, although you may not have known the exact date of the latest massacre, all Hamas has been screaming about is death to Israel from the start. So don’t play innocent.
Secondly, you have been receiving food, water, electricity, and medicine mostly from Israel, your so-called oppressor. Actually, Israel has been your daddy, and you have let yourself live like a ward of the state — a supremely ungrateful ward. When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, it left you orchards and sophisticated greenhouses, which produced income for the Jews who developed them and could have for you, too. But you tore them down out of spite. You also could have developed your beautiful beaches into profitable resorts. There was no Israeli “occupation” preventing your economic development, since Israel was not there. But Hamas was, and you apparently accepted Hamas’s dictatorial, one-party control.
Wake up to how your Islamist leaders have been taking international money that was meant for you and using it for their own luxurious living as well as for secret armaments. That is a big part of why you are poor.
Thirdly, Israel has offered peace to you on multiple occasions, but you preferred war, and a continuation of your hostile dependency. Looking at this mess from a family systems dynamic, you are the deeply troubled child refusing to help himself, relying totally on others to support him, and staying emotionally and financially crippled, taking pride not in accomplishments, but in destruction. Beyond that is your insane conviction that your host country must die, even as you bite the hand that feeds you. Apparently, neither you nor the world has noticed yet how untenable your demands are. You have successfully put up a smokescreen of self-pity and victimhood, which does nothing to help you getting well.
Playing the victim card right now, begging the world to make Israel stop the war, is a continuation of the smokescreen, giving Hamas more time to get strong and renew the attacks it has announced it will resume.
Fourthly, Gazans owe the world and especially Israelis an apology for all of the above. You must declare that you reject Hamas’s goal to kill all the Jews and take over Israel and the world. Tell the worldwide “hate Jews” movement yelling in support of you that it’s time for them to grow up, too. If you, Mr. Average Gazan, really want the bombing to stop, you must cooperate with Israel and help the Israelis find Hamas operatives and weapons caches, and whatever else will help the Israeli war effort.
In short, Gazans must take full responsibility for their support of Hamas and do all they can to disable it. Otherwise, Israel has no good reason to stop the bombing. You, Mr. Average Gazan, have been given the benefit of the doubt as an innocent victim. And you have shown you don’t deserve it.
Prove otherwise. Work now with Israel to halt the war and then develop a peaceful way of life. Or get bombed. The choice is yours.
Will this happen? Not very likely. But it is the moral path forward. Stating it can help you get clear on your need to take responsibility for yourself. It can also help the guilt-ridden international community make a decision to no longer let themselves be manipulated by your endless irrationalities.
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My Flickr slideshow from October 13, 2023, in Times Squarefocuses on the obnoxiousInternational Day of Action for "palestine".
The "palis' and their Commie supporters ALWAYS put on a good show. Posters, marches, chants. The media loves them. BUT what is MISSING?
These are LIES. ALL lies.
Adding two addendums that compliment Madeline's post:
Seventy-five years ago, my husband’s family was part of Egypt’s flourishing Jewish community. After Israel’s establishment in 1948, their community was destroyed. Egyptian Jews fled anti-Jewish persecution or were expelled.
But, speaking to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently denied this well-documented history. Instead, he audaciously claimed:
“I grew up in a neighborhood side-by-side with the Jews of Egypt. They were never subject to any form of persecution whatsoever. They were never targeted in any way whatsoever…. Maybe they were targeted in Europe, in Spain, in other countries, but in our Arab and Islamic region, nothing like this ever happened.”
While astonishing that Sisi, the leader of a U.S. ally, would spread ahistorical propaganda — many on the extreme political left promote similar lies.
The reason is simple: Middle Eastern and North African Jews do not fit a neat narrative about Israel’s supposed evil as a symbol of Western colonialism. The culpability of Jews and the “eternal innocence” of those who brutally resist the West by murdering civilians does not allow for Jewish victimhood when the perpetrators are not white or European.
But the history of Jewish life under hundreds of years of Islamic rule paints a different picture.
Jews under Islamic regimes were dhimmi, or a “protected people of the book” permitted to live in Muslim societies. They were however subject to regulations, such as paying the jizyah tax levied on non-Muslims, exclusion from certain professions, restricted habitation in ghettos, and often forced to wear distinctive clothing meant to demonstrate submission to Muslims.
Even with this “protected” status, Jews were under threat as a minority. Fanatics who rejected tolerant Islam often perpetrated anti-Jewish violence, including the slaughter and expulsion of Jewish tribes in the 7th century, the Almohades’ persecution in the 12th century, 17th-century forced conversion of Jews in Isfahan and manifold other expulsions, massacres and forced conversions — all of which are often erased in historical retellings like Sisi’s.
Modern history of anti-Jewish violence by fundamentalist Islamists is also denied or ignored. Before Israel was established, more than 800,000 Jews lived across the Middle East and North Africa. After Israel’ s establishment, hundreds of thousands of Jews left, fled or were expelled from Islamic-majority countries, threatened by rising Arab anti-Jewish sentiment and violence.
This persecution — ironically — resulted in todays’ Israeli Jewish population whose majority is made up of “Brown” Mizrahi Jews, indisputably indigenous to the region even for those with a penchant for denying ancient Jewish ties to Israel. With a few exceptions, their families’ former countries have largely become Jew-free. Today, as a Jew, I cannot safely visit most of the countries that generations of my extended family once called home.
But why is anti-Jewish violence and antisemitism in both pre-modern and modern Middle East and North Africa denied or ignored?
The reason is simple. Erasing Middle Eastern Jewish history and historical oppression of Jews sets up a bedrock of falsehoods to support the justification for terror: The decolonization argument, the belief that Hamas’ terror serves as legitimate resistance to a colonizing power.
Proponents of this false theory argue that Zionism grew directly from Western colonialism. Jews who settled Israel are seen as white European colonizers who carry the West’s moral stains and re-victimize its Muslim innocents. The Holocaust, typically understood as a key event in the legitimization of Zionism, is construed as yet another crime of European colonialism that indirectly led to the persecution of Palestinians.
Seeing this conflict as merely a question of colonialism is based on historical lies and allows for grotesque moral conclusions.
First, any violence against Israelis is legitimized and becomes the fault of the colonizers — either Europeans or Jews themselves — but never fundamentalist Islamists who perpetrate them.
Second, Jews cease to be innocent civilians. Whether adults or babies, whether they support a two-state solution or not, whether Israelis or Jews living in countries outside of Israel, they are legitimate targets for “freedom fighters” engaged in a prolonged anti-colonial struggle.
This false narrative assumes that Israelis should be viewed strictly as colonizers and Palestinians strictly as their resisters. It assumes that fundamentalist Islamists bear no responsibility for their actions. It ignores anti-Jewish violence by Islamists around the world. It denies agency to the very people whom it claims to speak for — Palestinians. It assumes that if only Israel were to dismantle itself, Jews would live peacefully again in the Middle East.
The events of Oct. 7 — and their aftermath — show the utter folly of that idea.
Oct 29, 2023. Curtis Sliwa joined those who came out in a steady rain at Cooper Union to challenge the constant LIES that Hamas and the anti-Israel protestors feed to the media.
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Curtis always supports the Israelis and Jews here at home with the current message BRING THEM HOME NOW!
Those who were able to endure the steady rain til the end left with flyers in a reusable shopping bag with tape, ready to do battle with the vandals who tear the kidnapped posters: They must be stopped!
Flickr slideshow: BRING THEM HOME NOW!
. The situation world wide grows worse each day. See current news links on this ever evolving story:
4 pm. Oct 26, 2023. Duffy Square at 46th st and Bdway. In the middle of Times Square I found 224 "Empty Tables/Empty Chairs" set for shabbat.
"On October 7th,2023, an unprecedented and horrifying attack against Israel was launched over Shabbat and the holiday of Shemini Atzeret.
ISRAEL IS AT WAR!
In times of crisis, we MUST stand together. While our hearts break for the wounded, kidnapped, and murdered and their families, we are proud that our community rallies to show our support." [https://iac360.org/support-israel-fund/]
BRING THEM HOME NOW!
First slide show : The 224 places representing those held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, 30 of them are children. HOSTAGES of HAMAS. This is a CRIME against Humanity. Israel. And the Jews.
Flickr 2- Later, families of some of the hostages were going to speak. Meanwhile I took pictures of those present. It seemed to be many friends and families
Video 1- Walking around the empty chairs. The children's tables. High chairs. baby bottles. The beautiful flowers and challah. It was a deeply moving experience particularly the children's table where chairs were knocked over and little toy-bears were blind folded and torn apart.
Video 2- IAC Board Member, Tal Shusterwas the first speaker.
Tal was born and raised in Israel, serving three years as an Officer in the Israeli Army, Tal arrived in the United States to complete her studies and graduate from Rutgers. Tal and her husband Eyal Shuster, have four children and live in Jersey City.
She was followed briefly by a woman who held a list of the countries supporting "palestine"; the hatred and racism. [She was being interviewed on camera so she wasn't on mic.]
Video 3- While IAC Council member, Aviv Ezra,Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, was being interviewed to my left, a woman to my right began a very loud, emotional statement. Everything stopped. She wanted everyone, the world, the city to hear her. She was so overwrought, that eventually she was given a supportive embrace to calm her down.
In the back ground of the video.... "Dear NY Times Words DO Break Bones .... "
Update with links and 2 short videos addressing the continued support for Pali/Hamas.
This young woman, confronts the lies that support Hamas. The lost generations who know only the anti-Israel/ anti-Jewish agitprop should listen to her. (but...they won't) "If you truly want PEACE, you Stand With Israel"
And Starbucks ... What were you thinking?
Supporting HAMAS? Starbucks is on the WRONG side of the protest Game.
This was so unnecessary.
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
October 19 , 2023. Duffy Square. Bring Them Home NOW! Powerful and deeply emotional.
Security was tight, as I expected. My press cameras were inspected to make sure they were actually cameras, but ... understood.
FLICKR Slideshow Part 1
Once in the press enclosure, I wasn't sure I was loving this location, surrounded by way too many cameras, but this was where I landed.* fellow journalists were getting great video and pictures of the crowd from outside the press area.* so, eventually, I too left this area.
FLICKR Slideshow Part 2
The evening began with U.S. National Anthem AND then Hatikvah (sung by Gilad Paz and Shiri Maimon).
Then, from the MC: "We no longer can be the Jews trembling in the shadows," actor and activist Yuval David, a dual Israeli and American citizen, "We know what happened to us then, and we know what is happening to us now." (the video is an excerpt of his opening remarks)
Elan Carr (CEO of Israeli American Council, quoted a by WPIX) “The (hostages) are suffering unimaginable agony every moment, and we are here to demand the release of those hostages as well as to stand for Israel’s inalienable right to defend itself decisively.”
Elan Carr then introduced Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) Senate Majority Leader and highest-ranking Jewish official in US history. The senator pledged America would do everything it can to rescue those held by the terrorists.
Video: NYC Mayor Eric Adams, who was supposed to be at the rally, bailed and sent a recorded message instead. He started awkwardly referring to Emmet Till, then once on message with the tragedy in Israel, he concluded by hoping for a PEACEFUL Resolution.(what would that entail?)
Ambassador Gilad Erdan (permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations since 2020) Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, declared that “Gaza will not have a moment of quiet until we bring them home and we will bring them. Israel will prevail.” (NY Post)
The parents of Israeli-American hostage,Omer Nuetra: Ronen and Orna Neutra. Omer had just turned 22.
The Acting General Council of Israel in NY- Aviv Ezra .
ALL were impassioned and committed to BRING THEM HOME-NOW.
Found this on line at Twitter X- "We as Muslims, don't hate any body for what they are , we deal with someone according to his actions with us. The issue in Palestine now is they want their land back from the occupying Zionist. Before Israel, there were a jews in Palestine and every thing was alright." NOT CORRECT, but this is what they have been TAUGHT
I left the press area to get a better look at the crowd.
It was huge and message oriented.
15 billboards in Times Sq were alive with the faces of those kidnapped. The mother and daughter below were freed the next day, BUT tragically there are still 200 hostages.
Israeli American Council demands the 200 hostages be freed NOW. However, Hamas has said it will not release the hostages until Israel ends its attack on Gaza, where some 2.3 million Palestinians live. The terrorists have also demanded the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.
SO, is a PEACEFUL resolution even possible when the hostages are not HOME?
[Where indicated, pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
A parting thought: THE FAKESTINIANS AND THEIR LEFTIST COHORTS have continued to SPREAD THEMSELVES AROUND MANHATTAN with huge protests BLOCKING the streets and challenging the police. THE MEDIA LOVES THIS ARROGANT CHAOS. THEY SCRAMBLE TO GET PICTURES AND VIDEOS of this NOT very Peaceful Resolution.
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Prove otherwise. Work now with Israel to halt the war and then develop a peaceful way of life. Or get bombed. The choice is yours.
